Howdy! It's your trusty delivery boy again here to give you some more information about Identity, Privacy, and Safety in the digital world. Today, we will be looking at an article by the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. If you are interested in viewing the article you may do so my following the following link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254235/
This is a scholarly article written by Jeff Cain, EdD of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy discussing the issues of online social networking sites with academics and pharmacy. The article talks about how popular social networking sites have become and how they allow students to build relationships with those of similar interests and become more connected to the school. However, the article goes into how social networking sites create issues in student’s personal lives and in higher education environments. The article talks about some features of social networking sites like tagging pictures and posting on people's walls, some issues of private information in a public space and how this information might be perceived by another audience differently than the audience that it was intended for would, and academic issues that are caused by social networking sites. The article concludes by saying that even though social networking sites are great for maintaining and strengthening social ties among students, these ties become an issue when considering the students identity, privacy, and safety and that academic institutions should make an effort to educate students to take the appropriate steps to protect themselves when operating on these sites.
I hope that this article is as interesting to you as it was to me. I encourage you to go out and look for articles such as this to see how the digital world is affecting our lives.
Until next time!
Keeton
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